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RFC 1945 - 13. Acknowledgments

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### 13. Acknowledgments

This specification makes heavy use of the augmented BNF and generic constructs defined by David H. Crocker for RFC 822 [7]. Similarly, it reuses many of the definitions provided by Nathaniel Borenstein and Ned Freed for MIME [5]. We hope that their inclusion in this specification will help reduce past confusion over the relationship between HTTP/1.0 and Internet mail message formats.

The HTTP protocol has evolved considerably over the past four years. It has benefited from a large and active developer community--the many people who have participated on the www-talk mailing list--and it is that community which has been most responsible for the success of HTTP and of the World-Wide Web in general. Marc Andreessen, Robert Cailliau, Daniel W. Connolly, Bob Denny, Jean-Francois Groff, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker, Hakon W. Lie, Ari Luotonen, Rob McCool, Lou Montulli, Dave Raggett, Tony Sanders, and Marc VanHeyningen deserve special recognition for their efforts in defining aspects of the protocol for early versions of this specification.

Paul Hoffman contributed sections regarding the informational status of this document and Appendices C and D.

This document has benefited greatly from the comments of all those participating in the HTTP-WG. In addition to those already mentioned, the following individuals have contributed to this specification:

           Gary Adams                         Harald Tveit Alvestrand
           Keith Ball                         Brian Behlendorf
           Paul Burchard                      Maurizio Codogno
           Mike Cowlishaw                     Roman Czyborra
           Michael A. Dolan                   John Franks
           Jim Gettys                         Marc Hedlund
           Koen Holtman                       Alex Hopmann
           Bob Jernigan                       Shel Kaphan
           Martijn Koster                     Dave Kristol
           Daniel LaLiberte                   Paul Leach
           Albert Lunde                       John C. Mallery
           Larry Masinter                     Mitra
           Jeffrey Mogul                      Gavin Nicol
           Bill Perry                         Jeffrey Perry
           Owen Rees                          Luigi Rizzo
           David Robinson                     Marc Salomon
           Rich Salz                          Jim Seidman
           Chuck Shotton                      Eric W. Sink
           Simon E. Spero                     Robert S. Thau
           Francois Yergeau                   Mary Ellen Zurko
           Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin

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RFC 1945 - 13. Acknowledgments